NEWS

Green court warning to 'polluting' Okhla plant

Source: HT Syndication, Date: November , 2014

An environment court has
threatened to shut down Delhi's lone waste-to-energy plant - which is facing
charges of burning non-sorted garbage and spewing health-impairing toxic ash
into the atmosphere - if the owners, Jindal Group, fail to take immediate pollution
control measures. The green court's rap is likely to be welcomed by local
residents who have time and again called for the shutting down of the plant on
the ground that it was causing pollution. The city government, instead of
paying heed to such protests, has allowed the building of two more such
incinerators in the Capital to try and wriggle out of a mammoth waste
management crisis.